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You don't think people in Europe live in suburban or rural areas? The difference is networks of buses and trains that the countries and cities invested in over

• taurath 9y ago
  Most of Europe doesn't live in what Americans would call suburbs, but villages. They're dense where people live and have train and bus service conveniently, because in postwar Europe there were a lot fewer cars. They also zone such that there's a dense living area surrounded by farmland - when that farmland becomes all housing thenyoull have American style suburbs, but few in Europe want that because it's harder to get where you want to go.
  • chrischen 9y ago
    This is pretty much the norm in orher places such as China and Japan. New developments havebeen getting more sprawl in China though, as cars have become more popular.
  • wott 9y ago
    You'd better update your knowledge. Suburbs now spread for miles around towns and even former villages, for ten or twenty miles around major cities. And small towns and villages lost their railways and stations 40 to 80 years ago.
    • taurath 9y ago
      Not in a lot of Germany, or Austria from what I saw driving the countryside for a week
  • dilemma 9y ago
    Post-war Europe didn't have cars and cities are surrounded by farmland? Nope.